Landscaping Workforce Act of 2021

Landscaping Workforce Act of 2021

This bill establishes that nonimmigrant H-2B visas (temporary nonagricultural workers) issued for landscaping or grounds keeping workers shall not count against the annual cap on such visas. The bill also eliminates an existing statutory exemption to the H-2B annual cap for visas for fish roe processing workers.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 401 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 401

To amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 to provide 
 for the inclusion of certain workers in the exemption from numerical 
          limitations on H-2B workers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 2021

Mr. Joyce of Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 to provide 
 for the inclusion of certain workers in the exemption from numerical 
          limitations on H-2B workers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Landscaping Workforce Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN WORKERS IN EXEMPTION FROM NUMERICAL 
              LIMITATIONS ON H-2B WORKERS.

    Section 14006 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 
(Public Law 108-287) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 14006.  The numerical limitation contained in section 
214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(g)(1)(B)) shall not apply to any nonimmigrant alien issued a visa 
or otherwise provided status under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) who is employed (or has received 
an offer of employment) as a landscaping or groundskeeping worker (as 
the Bureau of Labor and Statistics defines such term under code 37-3011 
for purposes of the Occupational Employment Statistics).''.
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